Campaigning for a fairer economy,

so growth can work for good

Praful is social entrepreneur and campaigner, advocating for smart, fair and popular solutions to some of the UK’s biggest challenges.

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About Praful

Praful is the founder and director of the Good Growth Foundation, a think thank that campaigns for popular economic policies to grow the economy while reducing inequality.

Until 2023, he was the CEO of Create Fertility, which he built with the mission to tackle inequalities in fertility treatment. IVF is neither universally funded nor universally provided on the NHS. Create Fertility improved the affordability of treatment and women’s experience during it. The company saved money for the NHS and patients, while creating hundreds of jobs and helping thousands of people to start families.

Praful is also a co-founder of Social Impact Enterprises, which aims to drive sustainable growth. He has won innovation and business awards from The Telegraph, The Spectator and London Business School.

Praful ran as The Labour Party’s parliamentary candidate in Islington North during the 2024 General Election and shaped education policy as part of Labour’s Council of Skills Advisors.

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In 2024, Praful founded the Good Growth Foundation, a new think tank working to create a fairer, more inclusive economy in the UK. Everyone, no matter who they are or where they’re from, should have the chance to contribute to growth and benefit from it.

We campaign for a fairer economy, so growth can work for good.

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See Praful’s work in the news below

For media enquiries, please email contact@goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk.

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Despite grit and graft the North sees far less return than the South
Despite grit and graft the North sees far less return than the South

Read the op-ed by Praful Nargund and Luke Charters MP in The Yorkshire Post.

How Labour can take back control of immigration from Nigel Farage
How Labour can take back control of immigration from Nigel Farage

Britain’s immigration debate is out of control - while the right ratchets up division, the left swings between denial and despair. You can’t out-Farage Farage, but you can’t ignore him either. Read Praful Nargund in the New Statesman.

KMTV
KMTV

Watch Praful on KMTV discussing the Good Growth Foundation’s new report on reopening Ashford International and what it will mean for the South East.

Return of Eurostar to Ashford ‘could unlock billions’ for local economy
Return of Eurostar to Ashford ‘could unlock billions’ for local economy

Read about the Good Growth Foundation’s report on reopening Ashford International on Kent Live.

£80m ‘ghost’ station should be re-opened to beat Reform and boost economy, Reeves told
£80m ‘ghost’ station should be re-opened to beat Reform and boost economy, Reeves told

Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign to reopen Ashford International in The I. It follows the GGF’s recent report which revealed this could deliver up to £2.7bn for the local economy over the next five years.

BBC South East Today
BBC South East Today

Watch Praful discuss on BBC South East Today the Good Growth Foundation’s latest report, ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’, on reopening Ashford International to bring good growth to left behind towns.

ITV Meridian
ITV Meridian

Watch Praful on ITV Meridian discussing the Good Growth Foundation’s new report on reopening Ashford International.

Restoring Eurostar services ‘would unlock £2.7bn’
Restoring Eurostar services ‘would unlock £2.7bn’

Read about the Good Growth Foundation’s report on reopening Ashford International on the BBC website.

Return of international rail services to Ashford would be worth almost half a billion
Return of international rail services to Ashford would be worth almost half a billion

Read about the Good Growth Foundation’s report on reopening Ashford International on Kent Online.

Lord Kinnock calls for VAT on private healthcare as polling backs windfall tax
Lord Kinnock calls for VAT on private healthcare as polling backs windfall tax

Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in Health & Protection.

Times Radio
Times Radio

Listen to Praful on Times Radio setting out how the UK has sleepwalked into a two-tier healthcare system - and how we can raise the funds to fix the NHS.

Kinnock calls for a Labour VAT raid on private healthcare
Kinnock calls for a Labour VAT raid on private healthcare

Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for VAT on private healthcare to fund the NHS, in the Daily Mail.

Labour MPs urge Reeves to toughen up housebuilding reforms
Labour MPs urge Reeves to toughen up housebuilding reforms

Read about how Labour MPs are calling on Rachel Reeves to adopt GGF’s Rapid Reforms to unlock housebuilding to avoid painful tax rises or spending cuts in The Times.

Lord Kinnock urges Rachel Reeves to launch a VAT raid
Lord Kinnock urges Rachel Reeves to launch a VAT raid

Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in The Telegraph.

Rachel Reeves must slap VAT on private healthcare, warns Kinnock
Rachel Reeves must slap VAT on private healthcare, warns Kinnock

Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign, supported by Lord Kinnock, for VAT on private healthcare to fund the NHS, in The Mirror.

Charge VAT on private healthcare like independent school fees
Charge VAT on private healthcare like independent school fees

Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in The i.